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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1969
Page
18
DES MOINES The 52nd annual town vocational agriculture conference will run next Monday through Wednesday at Fort Des Moines. Mrs Marian Beale of Dysart leads the champion bull and J W Campbell of Oxford the champion female. Attendance is expected to exceed 300. Theme: Living With Modern Farm Agriculture.
A 16 year old Poweshiek county girl Sharon Schilder won champion and reserve in the junior Angus show at the fair, repeating last year's performance. Brenda Freese, Julie Anne Johnson, Rozame Beale, Stoner, and Melanie Schutterle also placed in Hereford and Shorthorn classes with calves from local herds. Judges included John Minish and Clarence, with results listing multiple age and yearling divisions and ringside spectators noting an error about cattle born in 1868 seen as longevity humor.
Dysart girl Marlene Bottema, 17, won the champion individual and champion pen of market hogs at the All-Iowa fair junior show. Champion individual weighed 225 pounds. Winners include Dwight Sanders, Craig Hoffman, and Pfantz brothers among others from Mt. Vernon, Vinton, Cresco, Buckingham, Ainsworth, Melbourne, and Marion.
DES MOINES Iowa May meat production fell five percent from April and is fourteen percent below May 1968 Red meat output reached about 430 million pounds versus 454 million in April and 498 million in May 1968 Slaughter totals declined across cattle calves hogs and sheep with varying weight changes amid a year over year comparison.
ISU offers six day FAST program July 14 19 at Town State University for top Iowa students Rex A Adams Kirkman Carroll P Ehrhardt Robert W Ellis Steven V Imerman Jack Kendrick Alan D Kirby Randy J Klingman Greg Mollahan James M Sayers Craig G Watson and Denny F Yoder. Fellowship covers room board and all fees.
The 1970 Spring Market Hog Show in Cedar Rapids adds Junior Derby and Senior Derby classes to honor growth rate in pigs. Entries must be nominated within a week of birth and tattooed before weighing 14 pounds. Show date is February 1921 with hogs fo rwarded after September 15, 1969.
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